If you could change an AFL team's nickname

[LeverPuller]

I'd drop the Demons/Dees from Melbourne and just call them the Melbourne Football Club. They only use the Dees/Demons for the kids it seems anyway.

 

[yyou]

Richmond Royals
Our home ground would be the seedy pub across the road from Punt Road

I would like that, except I don't like the royals in the WAFL

 

[LB#16]

Cats and Saints. If you need to add 'ers' to the end (Catters, Sainters) so it sounds good when yelled out, it's probably a dud name.

 

[freowho]

Nicknames should evolve rather than be made up. How many of the original clubs started with a nickname? I follow Fremantle but hate Dockers, hate the song and hate that they changed the colours. I went to school in Freo and spent a lot of nights stumbling out of their pubs and clubs and hardly any of their symbols say "Freo" to me. The red and green are clearly "Freo" colours with the cappucino strip. I'm not going to follow any other team because I'm a born and bred "Freo" person but I keep my fingers crossed that they get rid of their marketing team.

 

[The Drug]

Geelong Cats (who's scared of a little kitty cat?) → Geelong Pivotonians (actually their original nickname from way back when)
Western Bulldogs (they're not really from WA) → Greater Western Melbourne Bulldogs (silly)
Melbourne Demons → Melbourne Burn (sounds cool)
Gold Coast Suns (as I said, really tacky) → Gold Coast Guards.
GWS Giants → Sydney Giants ('greater western sydney' is rather unwieldy. I routinely call my team Sydney Giants. Just make it official)
Adelaide Crows → ?????? (I don't really like 'Crows' that much but I can't find an alternative)

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Greater Western Sydney Great White Sharks
West Sydney Webs (as in funnel web)

GWS is not near water though???

 

[Comb Over]

Richmond tabby's ?

 

[Raleigh98]

Cats and Saints. If you need to add 'ers' to the end (Catters, Sainters) so it sounds good when yelled out, it's probably a dud name.

I'd like to see that rolled out league-wide

What about the Powerers or your team the Bomberers

Tigerers?
Eaglers?
Sunners!!!

Why Not?

 

[Trump_]

Fremantle Falcons
Port Pirates

 

[Down at K Park]

Richmond 9'ers

 

[Mr Fonebone]

Fremantle Bullsharks

 

[Pavlovs Cat]

Power. What's a Power and why does the mascot have the head of a lightning bolt?

Because they all have a chip on their shoulder.

 

[Ice-Wolf]

Cats and Saints. If you need to add 'ers' to the end (Catters, Sainters) so it sounds good when yelled out, it's probably a dud name.

That why's why it's "Gee-long!" and "St Kil-Da!" and works best when done quickly instead of drawn out like the stupid Collingwood death chant.

 

[Randomizor]

Starting to think a petition to have Freo's nickname changed to the Bullsharks might bear fruit..

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Port Pirates

 

[masai]

Starting to think a petition to have Freo's nickname changed to the Bullsharks might bear fruit..

Freo Schnappers.

 

[Simon_Says]

Freo should Honour Bon Scott (i know he has a statue), rename to Fremantle Thunder.

 

[chiwigi]

Hawthorn Hawks is one of the worst, not because a Hawk is bad etc. it's just been chosen because Haw.

 

[smasha]

I would change the Gold Coast Suns' name. To me it sounds weird because there are billions of stars in the universe, but by definition there is only one sun. Make them the Gold Coast Sharks or something relevantly coastal like that.

Gold Coast Rollers.

 

[sataris]

Richmond Niners

 

[smasha]

Richmond Rulers.

 

[NathanMX]

Adelaide Magpies and piss two teams off

 

[chiwigi]

Adelaide Magpies and piss two teams off

Three

 

[JVseven]

The Essendon Injectors

 

[Flags_In_The_Bag]

Got to be Carlton's. what on earth is a friggen Blue...lol